As a youth, touring and performing around Venice in accompaniment on the violin with his father, he is likely to have been influenced by Legrenzi who had become maestro di cappella at St. His father was Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, a founder of the Sovvegno dei musicisti di Santa Cecilia, an early musician's collective, who's President was the Baroque operatic composer and tutor Giovanni Legrenzi. Vivaldi's career as a violinist and composer was almost inevitable.

His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as 'The Four Seasons'. He is known mainly for composing many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. He is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. Died July 28, 1741, Kärntnertor, Vienna, Austria. Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric.īorn March 4, 1678, Sestiere di San Marco, Repùblica Vèneta, Italy.

Antonio vivaldi compositions